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Funicular (Incline) Railways - Canard - 01-14-2016
It's no secret I'm a fan of unusual transport technologies and I've spent most of my life exploring and reading about them.
So I'm quite surprised that I found a very new-to-me system - one I've dreamed about for quite a long while, a combination horizontal and vertical elevator/funicular!
Such a system exists, in Italy: the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto. It was constructed between 2002 and 2004 (but looks much older!). It has about a 300 m horizontal translation and 70 m vertical elevation.
![[Image: Caste02.JPG]](http://www.genovameteo.it/Caste02.JPG)
![[Image: genova_3.jpg]](http://www.agudio.com/media/2015/genova_3.jpg)
At about 3:25, if you listen hard enough, you can hear the gearmotor coupled to the grips that release/clamp onto the haul rope for the horizontal section.
RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - jamincan - 01-15-2016
Basically it's a Blade Runner-style elevator. That's pretty cool.
RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - DHLawrence - 01-16-2016
Or a turbolift!
RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - KevinL - 01-16-2016
A more basic and confined alignment, but a London Tube station recently put in a diagonal elevator.
RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - Canard - 01-17-2016
Those are fun! There's at least one DC Metro station with one.
RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - plam - 01-17-2016
(01-16-2016, 11:37 PM)KevinL Wrote: A more basic and confined alignment, but a London Tube station recently put in a diagonal elevator.
Although I've never been on an inside inclinator, I have been on 3 inclines this year. One in Pittsburgh, two in Zurich (one of them wasn't working on Friday night and I gave up, but it is generally useful for getting up and down the slope when it's open) and one just today at a ski resort.
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/vbz/de/index/die_vbz/mitbetreute_bahnen/seilbahn_rigiblick.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybahn_funicular
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drahtseilbahn_Unterwasser%E2%80%93Iltios
http://www.duquesneincline.org/
Paying for the Duquesne incline was a bit of a pain with a $20 bill, because the US has $1 bills still and the operator didn't have any bigger bills...
RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - Canard - 01-17-2016
I guess I should change the topic of this thread to Funiculars.
RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - KevinL - 05-16-2016
Genoa, Italy, apparently has lots of funiculars - but one isn't inclined as such; it goes sideways, then up...
RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - MacBerry - 05-16-2016
(01-17-2016, 06:56 PM)Canard Wrote: I guess I should change the topic of this thread to Funiculars.
or it could be called "Shuttlevators"
RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - tomh009 - 05-17-2016
This was a small one in Barcelona:
http://www.trenscat.com/funis/guinardo_ct.html
RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - timio - 05-17-2016
(05-17-2016, 12:00 AM)tomh009 Wrote: This was a small one in Barcelona:
http://www.trenscat.com/funis/guinardo_ct.html
There's also the traditional funicular in Barcelona going halfway up Montjuic from the Metro. From the top you can choose to take the cable car or, as my friend and I chose unwisely on a rainy Saturday afternoon, walk to the top to see the castle. We took the cable car back down.
RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - tomh009 - 05-17-2016
(05-17-2016, 06:48 AM)timio Wrote:(05-17-2016, 12:00 AM)tomh009 Wrote: This was a small one in Barcelona:
http://www.trenscat.com/funis/guinardo_ct.html
There's also the traditional funicular in Barcelona going halfway up Montjuic from the Metro. From the top you can choose to take the cable car or, as my friend and I chose unwisely on a rainy Saturday afternoon, walk to the top to see the castle. We took the cable car back down.
The Montjuic funicular was closed for maintenance while we were there. We walked up to see the Joan Miro Fundacion museum.
RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - Chris - 05-17-2016
There is another funicular in Pittsburgh not far from the already mentioned Duquesne Incline.
Monongahela Incline
http://www.portauthority.org/paac/SchedulesMaps/Inclines.aspx
I did visit the station but time constraints prevented us from taking a ride.
RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - clasher - 05-17-2016
Hamilton used to have two incline railways going up the escarpment. One of the right-of-ways is now pedestrian stairs.
RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - Canard - 05-19-2016
(05-16-2016, 10:44 PM)KevinL Wrote: Genoa, Italy, apparently has lots of funiculars - but one isn't inclined as such; it goes sideways, then up...
That's the one I posted as the first post in this thread.